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Park Chan-wook's jury gave the Palme, FIPRESCI, Ecumenical, Chalais and Citizenship prizes to a Romanian-Norwegian movie about a town that suspects its own neighbors.
Iceman debuts at number one with HITS Daily Double revising the first-week projection down to 460,000, leaving the question of whether the three-album trilogy clears 700,000 combined.
Friday's $33 million print and the $91-96 million four-day projection cleared every pre-release ceiling and still landed as the worst inflation-adjusted Star Wars opening since Return of the Jedi.
The jury did not award it, the rights administrator did not speak, and the platform's credit on a Lennon documentary is now the post-festival fact.
Mungiu's Fjord took the Palme; Sony Pictures Classics, the U.S. distributor of Almodóvar's Bitter Christmas, has not said a word about Wednesday's monsters press conference.
Saturday's correction holds — it was the new Tisza prime minister, not Orbán — and Orbán, Hungarian public broadcaster MTVA, and the EBU have all said nothing on Sunday.
A24's Club Kid and Amazon-MGM's Pumping Black are the year's mid-cap baseline; the streamer pullback held; AI-as-rights-financing is the 2026 transcript.